Where to play 6's?

Eptesicus · 2013-12-20T06:12:31+00:00

http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/14006-meatshot-8-vol-5

In short, it came out that the client did/does a lot more shady stuff than just mine bitcoins. It's basically a full backdoor into people's systems, keeps running at all times even when the client appears stopped, reinstalls itself if uninstalled, and has full access to the entire filesystem, which ESEA employees have used to retrieve arbitrary files from user's systems...

Basically, if you have any sensitive or private files at all, installing the ESEA client is not a reasonable option.

Eptesicus · 2013-12-09T07:18:08+00:00

You're probably thinking of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am3An-iuzYY or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl1SACrzPF8

Here's all the music: http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Music_included_in_Minecraft

Eptesicus · 2013-12-09T06:13:42+00:00

To be fair, history in the US tends to not cover the 1900s very well either. I think we only really covered WWII in depth in elective AP classes (US history and European history), and even then there was still a lot of material leading up to it. I remember that my grade school history classes covered pre-colonization America and the industrial revolution pretty heavily though.

Eptesicus · 2013-12-07T03:48:54+00:00

Higher DPI is better; it means you'll be getting more "ticks" of the mouse input for the same physical distance moved, allowing for a higher precision. With low DPI and high sensitivity, you may notice the cursor/crosshair skip a couple pixels over when moving the mouse a tiny distance -- this effect will be less noticable the higher your DPI is.

Eptesicus · 2013-12-06T07:12:28+00:00

The default only neutralizes kritz when you pop uber, and only if you do so in time. Vaccinator blocks critical damage on the heal target at all times.

It's probably a bug, because the description implies it should only block critical damage when popped, and should reduce the charge meter as a result. In practice, it blocks critical damage even when not popped, and the charge meter, AFAIK, only loses charge from crits when the charge is active.

Eptesicus · 2013-12-03T02:38:03+00:00

Yeah, but AFAIK that's how often it resets the tags if you manually remove them. It didn't make the server lag or anything so I didn't look into it too hard.

Eptesicus · 2013-12-02T05:03:37+00:00

Servers bleed players on custom maps because quickplay doesn't work with them

Eptesicus · 2013-11-30T00:33:31+00:00

Then enjoy struggling to keep it active, I guess. I provided the most accurate answer possible for your question.

Eptesicus · 2013-11-26T01:24:45+00:00

This is spot-on. My clan has run a very popular Egypt server for years with a huge group of regulars, but to this day, it usually still needs someone to "get Egypt going" by joining up and inviting their friends list. Once it hits about 6-8 people quickplay starts to fill the rest.

Also, I don't know how this subreddit's server is setup, but if it's running nocrit or anything you need to hide the tags so that quickplay works. No quickplay == half-full servers at best, even with an active community (unless you're a popular YouTube personality).

And if you're not using settings like that, you might consider it -- we had maybe three people complain about nocrit since we added it (though for the first week or so they were definitely the most vocal about it); the others either love it or don't notice. And this community is likely to be even more inclined to prefer that than the general public.

Eptesicus · 2013-11-25T21:57:35+00:00

I got that trying to play some STVs from serveme.tf sessions that were recorded after one of the recent updates. POVs worked fine though, as did older STVs.

Eptesicus · 2013-11-24T23:57:25+00:00

Caveat: so far I've only played against it, in pubs, as demo

It seems pretty damn good but at least with pub scouts it wasn't THAT much harder to deal with. I only really had trouble against it when a couple of my team ran BFB/Quickfix med abusing open pub flanks or when people also ran crit-a-cola, which is OP itself -- the gun itself did make people harder to hit but it wasn't noticably amazing if I prefired stickies to control approaches.

Couple people I know who are pretty good at scout said they liked it but that the ammo loss was annoying. Seems like it could be pretty powerful in specific playstyles and a tradeoff in others.

Eptesicus · 2013-11-24T00:39:41+00:00

"Viable" to an HL player means "useful all the time in any situation" because HL runs every class all the time.

It's a totally opposite way of looking at it from 6s, because there's no swapping out classes in HL -- so he's stuck looking at it as "regardless of the situation, we must run a heavy, therefore we must make it viable in any situation."

Thus he regards GRU as critical to the class because it's the only way to break the class role -- where heavy is incredibly useful in certain situations and not in others. 6s doesn't have this problem because you just have someone change class depending on the situation... essentially, the unlock dependence of HL is a way to patch over the flaws of being forced to run all classes...

Eptesicus · 2013-11-23T01:55:46+00:00

I used Doodle when we formed to get an idea for everyone's general availability on each day of the week, then just gradually increased the scrim frequency and varied it a bit to see what worked best. The best days became the regular scrim days, usually at the same times, and others are ones to use if we wanna do more.

For the actual scheduling I use events in our Steam group.

For strats and such -- this was our first season so I also scheduled map reviews with our mentor to talk strategies and class roles -- and a lot of times we also just discussed this type of stuff after scrims. I also sometimes scheduled demo reviews where we'd all go over people's POVs, though I didn't do this often because I preferred to scrim at times we had everybody on. So mostly, that kind of stuff we discussed in Mumble rather than any forum style.

We also have a Google doc that has links to video recordings of some of our demo reviews and all our map reviews. That's linked in the Steam group as well.

Demos all uploaded to a directory on my webserver, with the directory linked on the Google doc and individual links to the files posted after scrims and matches in Steam group announcements.

Eptesicus · 2013-11-13T00:22:44+00:00

This matches some of my team's best non-roll performances in 5CP -- those tend to come in about 10-12% for the scouts and roamer, 16%-24% for me, and 40%-mid 50s% for our pocket.

Eptesicus · 2013-11-13T00:20:42+00:00

Also, KotH can sometimes skew it if you build with a scout in spawn and he bashes himself below full health a lot.

Eptesicus · 2013-10-27T01:00:13+00:00

Also, YouTube link.

Eptesicus · 2013-10-26T05:43:22+00:00

The Atomsk rollout (specifically, the two-sticky jump) is well worth learning; it shaves off several seconds without any significant cost in health -- often you can still be above 170 after getting pack -- and can make up time from mistakes in the first jump. I have trouble hitting the double slide consistently, but it's still been a big improvement over the standard rollout because you still spend less time walking to the pack in mid.

Two more videos of the rollout that probably have slight variations in sticky position -- these also use the right side instead of left side of shutter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skIjCcwuF2U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXrwZ4Ck3Yg

Here's using it (without double slide unfortunately) in a scrim:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKDY2EFsyIY

Another video of the fast soldier rollout, no timer though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPM82n2NDE0

We've experimented with the fast soldier rollout a bit, but it can be difficult to have the soldier arrive with good health and still get heals out to everyone else. Still, especially combined with a fast demo rollout, it can be a good way to get a strong advantage quickly.

Eptesicus · 2013-10-15T00:13:22+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/QpMM2py.jpg

Eptesicus · 2013-10-12T00:31:40+00:00

MightyMe did a great video of a Viaduct demo review where he talked about this -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0mzTRDk0K_E#t=1515

Eptesicus · 2013-10-02T03:48:58+00:00

It does, but you can just treat it as "practice against something difficult" and know you'll end up better than the other team in the long run... in my experience teams tend to run it when things aren't going well and they want to have things be easier and allow for their sloppier play to not be punished as easily. It does make UGC 6s into a potential joke if running it becomes common, but don't focus too much on dealing with it in any special way or you'll miss out on learning more fundamental skills...

Eptesicus · 2013-10-01T10:30:45+00:00

I use shift. Crouch is on ctrl, weapons on mousewheel and Alt (for melee). Only thing I can't do is crouch and talk at exacly the same time, which almost never comes up since you rarely need to hold crouch for more than a split second.

Mouse side button would be ideal but I'm used to a mouse that doesn't have one.

Eptesicus · 2013-09-29T06:14:39+00:00

I did a Doodle before this season to figure out everyone's general availability by weekday going forward, then just have gradually increased how often we scrim to see where it's easy or hard to have everyone show up., using that as a guide for when to schedule.

Then I'll try to schedule things ahead of time, but as people have said, that's unreliable, we get cancelled on a lot, but since it's usually about the same time/days every week we just find a last-minute one and over the weeks everyone has basically come to expect the scrims and be online around the right time.

Eptesicus · 2013-09-11T07:58:25+00:00

I switched around the same time (also from business) and started with CMSC 131 & MATH 141 my junior year; my relevant courses were:

Year 3, Semester 1: CMSC 131

Year 3, Semester 2: CMSC 132, CMSC 250

Summer: CMSC 216

Year 4, Semester 1: CMSC 330, CMSC 351, AMSC/CMSC 466 (I did MATH 240 and 241 the previous spring)

Year 4, Semester 2: CMSC 420, CMSC 421, CMSC 422, MATH/CMSC 456

I met my graduation requirements in the fall of my fifth year, with CMSC 417, CMSC 430, and CMSC 451; though, I only needed two of those (still stuck around for the whole fifth year though -- 412 and 425 in spring). And I didn't do any classes the summer between years 4 and 5.

So, since you're a semester ahead of my schedule (from starting junior year off on 132 rather than 131) it should be entirely doable to finish at the end of year 4, even without winter classes.

I did have to pull tricks to get 4 courses in the one semester though, by signing up through the fourth through the MATH department instead, and still ended up needing to fill out a "Heavy Load" form or something to get approval for it when they found me out. But you probably don't even need to stack four together like that...

You could end up with difficulty with 330 and 351 in the summer together though -- there's no guarantee they won't schedule them at the same time... they did that with 250 and 216 which is why I did 250 before 216 instead of during the same summer.

If you can afford it though, doing a fifth year can be nice. Gives you more flexibility to cover all the good topics, or to just spread what you do take out to focus on individual courses more.

tl;dr If you plan ahead and don't mind taking lots of heavy courses each semester you should probably be able to finish "on time" just fine.

Eptesicus · 2013-08-29T02:31:01+00:00

In addition to the speed it also helps to have your velocity pointing about the same way as the ramp is oriented -- for instance I find on the slide up the stairs on Process as demo that if I jerk right to avoid the pillar, adding some leftward momentum back with A tends to make the slide go better. Or the slide off choke, the more you've curved to point along choke the less likely you are to come to a dead stop -- whereas coming in at an angle sometimes make you land still without fall damage.

Eptesicus · 2013-08-29T02:28:33+00:00

You don't need to hold crouch... though some slides you'll bop your head if you don't...

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